Here it is 2:21 AM, and I am once again watching movies on demand while doing even more research for this venture of ours. I am finding more and more that social networking isn't a fad, that it isn't a dirty phrase, and that it's just flat out the way things are going and I think this is both a good thing and a bad thing. The good part of this wacky "new" use for the web is that we are getting connected with people more and more. We are making friends in parts of the world we may never see, we get to interact with a greater variety of people and we get to experience just a little bit more of that human interaction thing that we as a world culture seem to lack at times. A good example of this is what I was doing today between bouts of research. I had firefox running with Facebook open and in one tab I was buying and selling my friends that are in Utah, Finland, UK, etc and on another tab I was playing Texas hold 'em with some people I "know" from Canada and on yet another I had Mob Wars running with my mob made up of people from every corner of this little blue marble. That's something that as a kid I would have never imagined was even possible, heck even a few years I wouldn't have even thought of that.


Now for the bad part. There is indeed a dark side to this fantastic new toy of ours and that is our lack of actual human contact. As we get more and more wrapped up in our online lives and people rushing home from school and work to see what new crazy app theirs friends are asking them to try and what JimBob0_O13 posted on their comments section we are slowly segregating ourselves from the outside world, the physical world, the "real" world. We are losing touch with the people around us, our friends and family and the community we live in. And that my friends is where RoyalAnts comes in. We will be using these sites and their myriad features to keep you and the people that matter most connected with your local community, friends, family, online friends that can become your real life friends, small businesses, venues, galleries, etc. It will be unlike anything else and it's why i am up this late making a blog post yet again.